Razor-strop.



No. 735,780 I PATENIE'D- AUG. 11,1903.

G. W. KOEN. v

, RAZOR STROP. APPLIQATION FILED NOV. 3,1902.

N0 MODEL.

ATTORNEYS UNITED STATESi Patented August 11, 1903.

PATENT OFFIC GEORGE W. KORN, OF LITTLE VALLEY, NEW YORK.

RAZO R-STRO P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Pate nt N6. 735,780, dated August11, 1903.

\ Application filed November 3, 1902. semi No. 129,882. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE IV. KORN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Little Valley, county of Cattaraugus, State of NewYork,have invented certain new and useful Improvements'in'Razor-Strops,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to razor-strops,and has for its object to provide astrop that will be kept stretched under tension and which may be readilyreversed from one side to the other. I also prefer to so construct thedevice that the tension of the strop may be adjusted within certainlimits.

The invention will be fully described hereinafter, and the features ofnovelty pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, whichillustrate oneform of my in-v vention, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation withparts in section. Fig. 2' is. .a top view or plan, and Fig. 3 is asectional elevation on line of Fig. 2.

The strop proper, A, may be made of any suitable material; but generallythe two surfaces of the strop are made of different material, onecoarser than the other, this being a well-known construction. At eachend the strop preferably has a reinforcement in the nature of a metalclip B, which embraces the end of the strop. The strop is secured to aholder 0, made substantially in the shape of a U. The holder is elastic,being made, for instance, of hard rubber. One end of the strop A has aswivel connection with the holder C, as by means of a hook D, secured tothe holder and on which the strop may be:

turned, so as to bring either one of its sides or surfaces to theoutside. The otherend of the strop isdetachably connected with theadjacent end of the holder and the free ends C of the holder engage thestrop, so that it will be stretched in a substantially straight linebetween said ends. The detachable end is fastened by means of v a hookor pin E. This pin is preferably mounted to turn in the holder 0 and isprovided with an eccentric portion or crank portion E, so that byturning the pin the strop A may be subjected to greater orsmallertension. In order to enable the pin to be held in differentpositions, I may under different degrees of tension.

secure to the holder 0 a plate F, provided with a series of detainingdevices, such as spurs F, which will normally hold the pin E againstturning without, however, preventing the pin from being moved to adifferent adj ustment, if the user should desire to do this. Vhen it isdesired to, reverse the strop, one end thereof is released from the *pinE and the other end is turned onits swivel, whereupon the free end isagain engaged with the pin E.

By my invention, as above described I provide a reversible strop whichmay be held I desire it to be understood, however, that variousmodifications may be made without departing from the nature of myinvention.

I claim and .I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the'UnitedStates- 1. The combination, with a holder, of a strop having itsopposite surfaces made of diferent fineness, a swivel connection between"one end of said strop andone'; end of the holder, and a detachableconnection between the other end of the holder and the other end of thestrop, the strop being of greater length than the distance between theends of the holder so that the holder ends may engage the strop betweenthose points at which the strop is secured to the holder.

2. The combination, with the U shaped holder, and a swivel-hookprojecting from the outer surface of one of the holder ends, of areversible strop having one end secured to said swivel-hook on the outersurface of said holder end, and means for detachably connectin g theother end of the strop to the other end of the holder.

3. The combination, with the holder, of the strop secured to the holderat one end, and

a pin j ournaled at the other end of the holder and provided with aneccentricportion adapted for connection with the other end of the strop.I

4:. The combination, with the holder, of the strop secured thereto. atone end, a pin journaled at the other end of the holder and providedwith an eccentric portion adapted for connection with the other end ofthe strop, and a series of detaining devices secured to the holder tohold said pin in various positions.

5. The combination, with the elastic U- shaped holder, of the strophaving a swivel connection with the holder adjacent to one end thereofand extending from one holder end to the other, a pin journaled adjacentto the other end of the holder and provided with an eccentric portionadapted to receive the other end of the strop, and a series of spursprojecting from the holder adjacent to the eccentric portion of the pin,to hold the latter 10 in various adjustments.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE \V. KORN.

\Vitnesses:

A. E. DARRoW, JosEPHUs 1\IICHELL.

